Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Growth Stocks. British socialism is more Methodist than Marxist. Its leaders have always had fervent faith that in freedom and social justice Englishmen can build the New Jerusalem of William Blake's vision. It was Britain's hunger for a better-ordered world that swept a Labor government to power in 1945. In the wilderness since 1951, Labor has fought ceaselessly to shape the coherent contemporary philosophy that might earn its passage back to power. It did not succeed because its leaders always came up with dreary, dogmatic formulas that were remote from the everyday lives...
...this objection is purely technical. Sukarno has repeatedly called Malaysia a "neocolonialist" attempt to maintain British influence in the area. Behind that charge lies his ambitions for territorial aggrandizement and a desire to give circuses instead of bread to the Indonesian people; to take their minds off hunger, unemployment and a crumbling economy...
...integral method," no minor poet or scientist is dismissed as irrelevant in presenting the age in "total perspective." Yet perspective is exactly what Durant lacks. Thus he can declare that "the greatest Italian painters were now in Naples, everything flourished-music, art, literature, politics, drama, hunger, murder, and always the gay, furious, melodious pursuit of feminine curves by agitated men." But he never seems aware that the "great" Neapolitan painters were at best secondary talents, and that the true center of painting had shifted elsewhere-to The Nether lands and France...
...idea is to make children hunger for learning, to want to possess it. Teacher Ashton-Warner discarded orthodox books, charts and lesson plans in favor of "the moving currents of children's interests," whatever they might be, in "the hot prison of the moment." In the formal sense, she says, "I teach style, and only style...
...shown by "the fact that you eat well and probably get slightly drunk." Since Chinese dinners run to eight courses, one should never be the first to take food from a new dish or eat much of what is served at meal's end. It indicates that hunger has not been satisfied-and will probably bring on whole new courses...